From Racy Rear Rhythms to St. Nick’s Supposed Soda Fixation: The Inescapable Quirks of AI Generated Melodies
“From Sensual Butt Songs to Santa’s Alleged Coke Habit: AI Slop Music Is Getting Harder to Avoid”
“In the past year, songs generated by artificial intelligence—some of it mature, most of it slop—have been seeping into the mainstream. Have you even noticed?” – the phrase has been taken from an article in Wired.
Artificial Intelligence has managed to infiltrate nearly every corner of human existence, and the music industry is no exception. The last year saw an increasing number of AI-created songs creeping into the mainstream, a phenomenon that should make anyone in the music industry pause… and possibly even wince.
Take, for instance, the entertaining but quite bizarre “musical” products churned out by AI software – songs about sensually alluring butts, or Santa Claus’s alleged penchant for the powdery white stuff. Yes, we’re not kidding here, and yes, you did read it right. Could it be that most of the listeners haven’t even noticed?
Of course, it’s one thing for an AI parody song to land itself into the viral hall of fame. It’s quite another for AI-generated music to hold its own against the melodic genius of humans in the mainstream. Are we already dancing and singing along to tunes composed by algorithms without noticing the difference?
There are certainly some instances where AI can recreate the magic of Mozart or the charm of Chopin. But more often than not, it spits out what could euphemistically be called “slop music”. Pray tell, what’s “slop music”? Well, imagine a musical soup that’s had every ingredient randomly thrown in and then vigorously stirred. It’s not appetising and it’s definitely not music to anyone’s ears.
An AI might have its algorithms, machine learning, and boundless computational potential, but the question remains: can it create something that resonates with the soul, that moves the heart, and strikes a chord with the human condition? That’s the bar set by every great musician and the expectation every listener carries when they press play. For now, at least, the scales seem to be tipping more towards “Nope, not quite there” on the AI music measurement scale.
So, while AI continues to upend industries and redefine boundaries, perhaps there are some arenas where the human touch – or in this case, the human voice – simply can’t be replaced or replicated. At least not yet.
Don’t be surprised if the next earworm doesn’t come from a boy band or pop diva but instead from artificial intelligence. But whether it will end up in your music library or in a forgotten corner of the YouTube universe… well, only time will tell.